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J. DORMER & E. M. MARKS METHOD OF MAKING CAPS.`

No. 394,469. Patented Deo. 11, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOSEPH DORMER AND EDVARD M. MARKS, OF @INFINA'IL OlllO.

METHoD oF MAKlNG CAPs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,469, dated December 1 1, 1888.

Application tiled January 11, 1888.

To all whom i muy conce/n.-

le it known Ithat we, JOSEPH DORMER and EDWARD M. MARKS, both of Cincinnati, Haniilton county, Ohio, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of (laps, of which the following is a specification. ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a piece of goods consisting of a single knitted seamless tube or cylinder. Fig. ll shows the same cylinder introverted upon itself. Fig. III represents the next step in the manufacture, which consists in making two oblique cuts or slits in the doubled edge or rim of the thus iutroverted cylinder. Fig. IV represents an ordinary visor. Fig. Y is a section, which shows the visor inserted between the folds the cut edges of the oblique slits closed by stitching, a crown formed by gathering the free upper edges into a central knot or pompon, one of the lapels formed b v said slits stitched at its cut edge, and provided u ith a fastening ribbon and lining secured within the cap. Fig. Vl represents the completed cap.

l represents a seamless tube or cylinder of knitted goods, which, being folded one half of its length wit-hin the other half, as shown in Fig. lI, has two oblique cuts or slits, 2, formed i in its doubled edge. l 3 represents a gotta-perche or other suitable visor, which, having been inserted between the folds, as shown in Fig. V, and pressed forward, so as to stretch the goods in front of it, is secured by stitching, as indicated at t in Figs. V and Vl. This stitching also serves to catch and prevent raveling of the upper l Serial No. 260,413. (No model.)

edges of the oblique slits. rl`he lower edges of said slits, being similarly caught by stitching 5, produce the pair of lapels or ear- Inuffs G, which, having been folded upward and drawn around the. cap-body, so as to form a band, their free ends are. secured to each other by a bow, 7, (or other fastening,) as in Fig. YI. The interior of the cap may have stitched within it any suitable lining, S. Finally, the upper edges of the thus introverted tube or cylinder are drawn or gathered and stitched together, as shown in l4 igs. V and VI, to forni the crown.

The abovedescribed preferred forni of our invention may be varied. For example, an inferior modification may consist in forming such a cap from a tube produced bystitching together two opposite edges of a rectangular piece of goods or like elastic fabric.

le claim as new and of our invention- The method of manufacturing caps, substantially as herein described, which consists in taking a single tube of fabric, introverting the tube, obliquely slitting the lower portion to form the front projection and lapels, inserting a visor in the front projection, securing the lapels together by a fastening or bow, and gathering the top of the tube together to form a knot.

In testimony of which invention we hereunto set our hands.

JOSEPH DORMER. ED\\'ARD M. MARKS.

Attest:

GEo. H. KNIGHT, F. lI. PHILLIPS. 

